Human Rites Peeks Inside the Ivory Tower

Michaela, an African American dean at a major American university, summons Alan, a renowned professor of cultural psychology, to discuss student protest over his controversial paper on female initiation rites in sub-Saharan Africa. But dormant feelings from an affair years earlier turn a heated argument over science and cultural pluralism into a knock-down, drag-out fight. Seth Rozin's provocative play shatters the ivory tower of academia, upending questions of privilege and Western morality. Harriet Power directs this InterAct Theatre Company production at The Proscenium Theater at The Drake in Philadelphia.